Table of Contents

Volume 23, Number 4 · March 18, 1976

Neal Ascherson, The Homecoming

Spandau: The Secret Diaries by Albert Speer, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston

Michael Wood, All Mixed Up

Seven Beauties directed by Lina Wertmüller

Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August directed by Lina Wertmüller

All Screwed Up directed by Lina Wertmüller

John Kenneth Galbraith, Into the Sunset

The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty by Peter Collier, by David Horowitz

The Rockefeller Syndrome by Ferdinand Lundberg

Robert Craft, A 'Beautiful Coloured, Musical Thing'

Gore Vidal, Adamses: The 'Best' People I

The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness by Jack Shepherd

The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784 edited by L. H. Butterfield, edited by Marc Friedlaender, edited by Mary-Jo Kline

Adams: An American Dynasty by Francis Russell

The Character of John Adams American History and Culture by Peter Shaw

John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words edited by James Bishop Peabody

Milton Viorst, FBI Mayhem

Helen Vendler, News from the Muse

Divine Comedies by James Merrill

Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner, The Revival of Official Art

Le Musée du Luxembourg en 1874: Peintures November 18, 1974, by Geneviève Lacambre, with Jacqueline de Rohan-Chabot Catalogue of the exhibition at the Grand-Palais, Paris May 31 to

Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime

French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution Delacroix" at the Grand-Palais, Paris, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975 Catalogue of the exhibition "French Painting from David to

William-Adolphe Bouguereau December 13, 1974 to February 2, 1975, by Robert Isaacson Catalogue of the exhibition at The New York Cultural Center,

Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the Second French Republic, 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark

The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 by T.J. Clark

John K. Fairbank, The New Order in Asia

Asia and the Road Ahead: Issues for the Major Powers by Robert A. Scalapino

Norman Mailer, Set Theory (poem)

Robert M. Adams, Ancient Incas and Modern Revolution

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Letters

John Hellebrand, Ada Louise Huxtable, Trompe L'oeil
Herbert R. Southworth, Alexander Cockburn, Guernica
Ivan Morris, Torture in Uruguay
Melissa G. Moyer, Jesus M. de Miguel, et al. Whither Spain?
Ken Follett, Moshe Safdie, Growing Pains

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Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Robert Craft was awarded the International Prix du Disque at the Cannes Music Festival for 2002.(May 2002)

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son; and The Castle in the Forest.

Charles Rosen's most recent book is Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist. (February 2008)

Helen Vendler is the author, most recently, of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (June 2008)

Gore Vidal's most recent novel is The Golden Age. (February 2002)

Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton. His most recent book is Literature and the Taste of Knowledge. (April 2008)

Henri Zerner, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l'histoire de l'art: Figures d'une discipline. (January 2005)

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